Add-On Releases - [AJAX] Helpful Answers - Allow users to rate individual posts

Helpful Answers has been used to record over 6 MILLION times on more than 2,000 forums. If you're not using HA your users are looking for it!

Every day your users contribute hundreds if not thousands of posts making it hard for new members and guests to separate out the best answers from those that are less helpful. The Helpful Answers System offers your members a quick way to rate individual posts as either helpful or not allowing future visitors to understand the value of each post.

Designed to be flexible, HA has over 30 configurable settings:

• Use image or text ratings AJAX or traditional links.
• Offer yes/no or scaled 1-10 point ranking.
• Turn off negative ratings for a positive only system.
• Decide which forums are open for helpful answer ratings.
• Audit the system and identify top users and potential abusers.
• Ban specific members from using the system.
• Customize the message shown after a post is rated.
• Show a page with the top helpful posts.
• Show rating stats on a user's profile.
• Hide posts that rate "too low"
• Template driven so you can customize it all for your forum.

For advanced users template conditionals and variables let you further extend the functionality to color highlight good or bad posts, include ratings in user?s profiles and much more.

Modification Installation [Must Read]:

Step 1: Upload the addon files found in the upload/ folder to your forum directory
Step 2: Install the plugin through your vB Administration area
Step 3: Configure settings & enable the mod in individual forums

You must configure settings & enable forums before voting will show up.
Anonymous Stats Tracking (optional):

By default this addon will pass basic rating data (positive or negative) to a 3rd party site for statistical purposes. Only the most basic data is captured (the vote and your site name) and no user information or specific forum details are logged, not even an IP address. You can disable this through the admin.

Mod Philosophy -- Drive Your Own Success:

All of my mods are inspired by my work in digital marketing and are designed to drive registrations, interaction or other engagement activities the core platform does not address.

Each is designed to fit a general need by providing a starting point but it's on you to decide how to make things work to their best possible outcome. Feel free to suggest what you'd like to see next but don't wait to have what everyone else has; figure out what your forum needs and customize away.

[Ranger187]

Ted, just wanna thank you again for your support. You helped fix that issue with it not showing when rep was given..It was blank......

I thanked ya then...but just thanking again. It's good to see a coder active

[TimberFloorAu]

Just noted when we look at source code.

Output code for helpful answers displays.

<div id="helpfulanswers_box_173107" style="text-align:right;"> <br /><hr size="1" style="color:$stylevar[tborder_bgcolor]" /> <strong>Did you find this post helpful?</strong> <a href="http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/./helpfulanswers.php?do=rate&amp;postid=173107&amp;rank=1"  onclick="return helpfulanswers_rate(173107, 1);"  rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/images/buttons/ha_plus.png" width="18" height="18" border="0" alt="Yes" /></a> |
						<a href="http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/./helpfulanswers.php?do=rate&amp;postid=173107&amp;rank=0"  onclick="return helpfulanswers_rate(173107, 0);"  rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.yobromofo.com/forum/images/buttons/ha_minus.png" width="18" height="18" border="0" alt="No" /></a> </div>

The part of concern is the /./
This appears in the product file ./helpfulanswers.php

So Is it okay to remove the . from the code associated within the xml file. In a few places.

Cheers Ste

Still working on adding BG img to the helpfulanswers_box div.

[TimberFloorAu]

Well took a while fiddling, but managed to tweak it.

I hope Ted doesnt mind, I have amended the product with new hover thumb images. Background image and css styling.

If he agrees I will share the code - I am in no way in Teds league ( so please NOTE you if he agrees use at own risk ), BUT please please note this is my bastardized version, and I cannot guarantee it will work for you. However, if you use the hover thumb method, then my rejigged product file ( if you want it to look like ours ) should work.

The backgroudn image is a png 200px by 200px Could be replaced with anything really.

Anyhoo.. heres our version.

[Verionia]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Sounds like you need a different modification or to extend this for your specific use...

anyway you can help me create this?

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Similar to this ... ( Just made this graphic so apologies for quality )

Sure. The voting block is all done with a template and a few conditionals. You could make an image map, build something with a little table, whatever you like.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Well took a while fiddling, but managed to tweak it.

I hope Ted doesnt mind, I have amended the product with new hover thumb images. Background image and css styling.

If he agrees I will share the code - I am in no way in Teds league ( so please NOTE you if he agrees use at own risk ), BUT please please note this is my bastardized version, and I cannot guarantee it will work for you. However, if you use the hover thumb method, then my rejigged product file ( if you want it to look like ours ) should work.

The backgroudn image is a png 200px by 200px Could be replaced with anything really.

Anyhoo.. heres our version.

Looks like I should have read this post first.

You're free to share with anyone who likes, or if you prefer, I can post the code to the addon as a user contribution.

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by Ranger187

Ted, just wanna thank you again for your support. You helped fix that issue with it not showing when rep was given..It was blank......

I thanked ya then...but just thanking again. It's good to see a coder active

Thanks!

[Ted S]

Originally Posted by TimberFloorAu

Also daft question.

Is there a reverse system.

For example.

Thread starter posts really useful stuff. So the Helpful answer system appears just on the very first post, and then viewers can click helpful yes or no, but the graphic does not appear on subsequent replies.

Ste

You can just enable the hide on first post option and inverse the logic of the code (change != to ==).

[TimberFloorAu]

Originally Posted by Ted S

Looks like I should have read this post first.

You're free to share with anyone who likes, or if you prefer, I can post the code to the addon as a user contribution.

It does have a couple of limitations.

The <strong> message 1 out of 1 expats found this post helpful. etc isnt aligned correctly.

Also it displays behind Quoted text. Isnt ideal lol.

Apart from that works fine.

Will post product here ( dont forget this is heavily bastardized and ONLY functions for thumbs hover version )

Also will post png images and psd.

Feel free to look at the code Ted, and do with as you wish. To prevent any issues, I will once you have replied. Edit this post and remove the attachments.

Regards Ste


added: some additional backgrounds. Just rename the one you want to answer_bg

[Bouncer222]

Is there a way to set this for only one forum? Like we have a specific forum category for Tech Help only, so I would want to use this only for that forum, if its possible, how can I do this?